The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-11-19

AZ announcer the great uuAI roundup
took place Monday. A large delegation
OF hunters departed for the hunting
grounds on Sunday and were joined on
Monday by another brigade OF armed
men. Thehunting was done on section
twenty-five 1882, in the big burning east
oi the Lee Peck mine. The start was
made early Monday morning and was
very successful. At roll call there were
present forty-tuc men armed with guns
of every known make and n more savage
and fearless looking lot OF men never
hunted these woods. At the dropping 81
a handkerchief the party started keeping
time TO the music of the woods. The
men stood in a long line until the word
was given when man from each end
walked of and when hc had advanced
five rods WIS followed by the next tw<,
men until the entire party had stret6xs,'
out in one long bne. The leaders walkt>H
i'm a semi-circle la order 90 meet and
and would have killed thousand deer II
they had been in the circle but unfortu-
nately the deer had just previously
moved 10 an adjoining section and the
result OF the roundup was the killing of
but two deer over which the hunters got
into an alteration az Ia who was the
rightful owner. The roundup occupied
n greater part of the day and as the re-
suit was so slim the managers decided to
adjourn until next fall and so they came
home, but not until il was dark enough
to allow them tn sneak In withhot being
seen and now IL IL an utter impOssibilty
60 find a man who will admit that he was
out on the hunt.
The lawful season for killing deer ex-
pired at midnight ON Tuesday Nearly
every person here who had liking for
such sport was out and the majority Of
them were successful Deer were plenti-
ful and many OF the pretty creatures
were killed within a mile of this office,
while the hunters who took 20 the lar
away woods were none the less SUCCESS
ful. A noticeable feature of the hunting
done this fall was the almost total abr
sence of the head light. In the ranks 81
the local sportsmen OF Crystal Falls are
to bc found some OF the very best rifle
shots that exists nnywhere. They are
not target shooters. hut hunters. Among
the Nimrods who have this fall added
from two Co ten pin heads 60 their rifle
stocks are A. Parks, Henry Abraham
sou, III. b. Swain, A. l.. Flewelling, John
ID. Groat, DR.. III. &. Kimball, G. l.. Leach.
VI. fuskirk, G. NJ. Atkinson, Hugh Me-
tilinchy, " Carr, j. Il. Bower, EloE
Stowell, A. y. Webb, Ray Kiniball A. j.
Harding, c. G.. Campbell, X. w. Camp
bell, Henry Pcnticost, Milon Stowell and
oth.<.
Paul II. Smith, Omcr Lindsay, Frank
Love, John Erickson, Dick Dawson and
h. r. Schwartz made a rabbit chase last
Sunday and killed five. The dogs trced
black cat near town and Omer was the
first TO see IT, but did not shoot because
he thought il was bear cub. He drop
ped his gun and climb tree, remaining
high until the other boys come along.
Bear cubs don't have long tails, Uncle
Hayseed.
G.. c. Campbell, A. j. Harding. NJ. Bus
kirk, j. l.. Newell, II. w Campbell and
Barney Iiaberman, formed "A side issue Of
the great roundup party which left here
Sunday. Their count Is two deer for
&. G. Campbell, one for Toncy Harding.
and one for Buskirk The others car
ricd the spoils and did no killing because
IL was Sunday
While out hunting last Monday Thos.
McCusker fell, his rifle coming across
the top oi his left wrist with force enough
TO sever un artery. His comrades drrss-
cd the wound as best they could and he
went home. He lost considerable blood.
doubt would have perishcd.
Arthur Campbell don't ordinarily tip
the beam at more than ninety pounds,
hut last Saturday he weighed AN even
ton, not coal dealers measure, but "a
real old-iashioned inll weight lie shot,
killed and caused 60 be brought TO town
n buck that weighed dressed over two
hundred pounds.
G. G.. Campbell has not hunted much
this fall-only two days, Friday and
Sunday last--but has added five notches
ON his gun stock and brought In the deer.
all bucks, Go coroboratc them. Killed
three the first day and two the latter.
The Stowelf brothers. Elom and Miion,
returned on Thursday night from "a six
weeks hunt In the MichUam,na country
They killed very nearly fifty deer. They
are hunters and make a busipess qi a..
Henry Pcnticost distinguished himself
by killing three deer in one day-iast
Saturday, Swan lake. Did not
learn whether IL was all done at one shot
or not.
M. Buskirk killed twenty-five dear this
fan. Last year he brought down thirty
five, the season being longer
G. N. Leach killed spike-horn on
Monday and a three hundred pound
buck on Tuesday. ~
Charley Mnlmstead shot and killed a.
big buck In the vicinity OF Swan lake last